
Chinese Whispers with Cindy Yu is a weekly updated Substack and podcast, seeking to bring a more colourful and complex understanding of China to the mainstream. To listen to the full episodes, become a paying subscriber at chinesewhispers.uk.
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 51 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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One of the main justifications that the Chinese Communist Party uses to justify its repression of the Uyghur people is the supposed existence of armed separatists. The CCP says that there are violent, militant Uyghurs who are behind the ter...
How AI boyfriends have become Chinese Gen Z’s new obsession
When my fiancé was out for dinner on Friday night, I got up to something… interesting: I got myself an AI boyfriend.
A few years ago, I contributed to the British broadcaster Iain Dale’s latest book, The Dictators, a collection of essays on the world’s most notable autocrats through history. I was assigned Xi Jinping, and wrote a 3,000 word biography of t...
The last 48 hours have been a whirlwind of a Xi-Trump bromance, almost as if the trade war, the AI race, the years of mutual recriminations haven’t happened.
The last 48 hours have been a whirlwind of a Xi-Trump bromance, almost as if the...
Does China have a grand strategy?
Does China have a grand strategy? Does it behave differently to other countries because it has, supposedly, five thousand years of history? Does Xi Jinping decide every policy decision, or are its ministri...
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